So smart that he can design rockets on a whim

I STILL think that if all the rocket scientists died and we needed to go to the moon that I could do it lol.

Thats what you said. This is ridiculous. I honestly am surprised at the lack of awareness you have. Do you realize how many millions of man hours it would take to get to space from scratch? Achieving space flight is the convergence hundreds of different fields and their hundreds of years of history and progress, along with most importantly, something you definitely couldnt replicate by yourself, which is the thousands of great minds needed to even put one new ship into space. Along with the tens of thousands of Phds, Doctorates, and years or decades of individuals working in the field. Even if you could somehow achieve all of this, thats discounting that many of the crucial people working in space programs are naturally talented beyond what you or I will ever achieve. We are talking about the smartest minds from M.I.T, Stanford, Cambridge, etc etc.

All in all youre are terribly conceited and dense to believe you could come anywhere close to gaining space flight on your own, not to even mention landing on the moon like your original claim, which is a feat maybe orders of magnitude more difficult. Have you heard any of the news about space companies progress these past 5 years? Its not a coincidence that companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin, etc, will burn up hundreds of millions of dollars before they even get a ship in space at all.

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